St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-22
License and Sale Of Liquors.

AN ACT regulating the amount of licenses for
the sale Of Intoxicating liquors.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State OF
Minnesota:
SECTION l. No license for the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors shall be granted to any person ap-
plying tor the same under the provisions of the
charter OF any city of th- state, which city con-
tainS population OF ten thousand people or
more, by the municipal authorities of said city,
eXcent upon the condition that said applicant
shall, before the issuance of said license, pay
into the treasury of said city in the manner pro-
vided by its charter license fee of one thou
sand (,00Ol dollars, or such fee III excess OF salG
sum rs the city council Of said city shall, in the
manner provided in It's charter. fix and pre-
scribe; anything the charter of any city to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
. SEb.1: No license for the sale of intoxicating
liquors shall be granted to any person applying
for the same under the provisions of the charter
of any city of this state, which city contains a
population of less than en- thousand 100000
people, by the municipal authorities of said
city, except upon the condition that said appl-
cant shall, before the issuance Of said license,
pay into the treasury of said city, in the manner
provided by its charter. license fee OF five hum
dred t5G0) dollars. or such fee in excess of said
sum the city council of said city shall, in the
manner provided by its charter, fl and pre-
scribe anything in the charter of any city to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
SEC. 3. No license for the sale of Intoxicating
liquors snail be granted by the county commits
sioners OF any county, or the municipal authori-
ties OF any town, village or borough, to any per-
sou applying for the same under the provisions
1873, or Of any general or special law governing
such village or borough, except on the condition
Of paying, in the manner prescribed by said
chapter sixteen. or in the case of any village or
borough organized or existing under q general
or special law regulating the subject of licenses
fol- The sale of intoxica ting aQuSrs, then il the
manner provided in AMI by such general or
spf ciai law. license fee of five hundred 500
dollars or such fee in excess of said sum as the
county commissioners, or in case Of such village
or borough the municipal authorities of such
village or borough shall fix and prescribe.
Provided, That no license sha be granted for
a longer period than one year, or for q period
beyond twenty !O) days after the annual cleo
tlon IN such village or city next ensuing after
the date of such licenses.
SEC. d Nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued as affecting repeating the local option
proviso of section one % of chapter sixteen Q6)
of The General Statutes of 1873, or the local op-
ton provisions of section AS OF chapter 145 of
General Laws of 1885.
SEC. ). All acts and parts of acts inconsist-
ent with his act are hereby repealed.
SEC. e. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after July 1st, 1887.
Approved Feb. 10th. 1887.
AN ACT to amend chapter sixteen, General Stat
utes 1873 relating TO Intoxicating liouors
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Minnesota:
SECTION l. That section ten of said chapter
be amended so as to read as follows: Section
10. 1t shall be unlawful for any person to sell,
give, barter, furn sh or dispose of, in any man
her. either directly or indirectly, or by agent,
employees or otherwise, any spirituous, vinous,
malt or fermented liquors, in any quantity or
for any purpose whatever. TO any minor person.
or to any student pupil in any public school
seminary, academy or other institution of learn
ing in this state, or to any habtual drunkard or
incorporate drinker of Intoxicating liquors, or
TO any intoxicated person: and any person vio-
Eating any of the foregoing provisions of this
section shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof by any court having jurisdic-
ton, shall be punished by fine of not less than
twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred
dollars, and costs OF prosecution, or by impris-
snment in the county Jail not less than thirty
nor more than ninety days, or until such fine
and costs are paid, not exceeding ninety DAYS
and any parent husband, wife, child, guardian,
master or employer, or relation of any person
who is habitual drunkard or an intemperate
drinher Of Intoxicating liquors. or any one who
Is annoyed or injured by meaus Of the continued
fntoXication of such drunkard or Incorporate
drinker, or any pa ent, master. guardian, rela-
tive or employer of any minor person, may give
notice IN writing. signed by him or her, to any
perSen, forbidding him from directly or indi-
rectly furnishing any such habitual drunkard
tntemperate drinker or minor named in such
Rotice with any kind of Intoxicating liquors
Md if within one year after such no.
tace, in of habitual drunkards and
minors, and any time before such minor person
ehall become OF full age. any one to whom such
notice as given. sells, gives away, furnishes,
directly or indirectly, or causes to be furnished.
sny intoxicating liquor to the person named in
yuch notice. he shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demesnor, and, upon conviction thereof by any
peurt having jurisdiction shall be punished by
sne not less than fifty dollars nor more than one
hundred dollars. and by Imprisonment in the
county Jail for not less than thirty days nor
more than ninety days: and in case of default in
ehe payment of such fine, the court NAV, in ad-
siton to the time of imprisonment fixed by
its judgment, commit such person to
the county Jail until such fine is
paid; the whole time however, for which
any nerson can be so committed to the
cou lty jail under the provisions of this section
not to exceed ninety days. and the license OF
such person shall be revoked as hereinafter
stated. All the provisions of this section shall
also apply to municipal corporations, anything
in the charters or ordinances thereof to the con.
trary Notwithstanding Any person who shall
purchase or procure for any Incorporate drinkel
of intoxicating LIQUORS, habitual drunkard. OF
minor, knowing them to.be SUCH with money or il
equivalent, furnished by such person or by sucl
drunkard, Incorporate drinker minor or Other
person for him any intoxicating LIQUOR shall he
guilty Of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
shall be punished by fins of not less that twenty.
1--WE nor more than one hundred dollars tosethe,
with costs Of crosecution,G or W Imprisonment IL
ths couE.y II for not less THAI twenty nor